Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial Note
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1 The Custom of the Country: Edith Wharton's Conversation with the Atlantic Monthly
- 2 When the Reading Had to Stop: Readers, Reading and the Circulation of Texts in The Custom of the Country
- 3 ‘Don't Cry – it ain't that Kind of a Story’: Wharton's Business of Fiction, 1908–12
- 4 Worst Parents Ever: Cultures of Childhood in The Custom of the Country
- 5 Crude Ascending the Staircase: Undine Spragg and the Armory Show
- 6 ‘It's Better to Watch’: Compulsive Voyeurism in The Custom of the Country and The House of Mirth
- 7 A ‘Mist of Opopanax’: Mapping the Scentscape of The Custom of the Country
- 8 Landscape with the Fall of Undine
- 9 Girls from the Provinces: Wharton's Undine Spragg and Cather's Thea Kronborg
- 10 Men at Work in The Custom of the Country
- 11 ‘Lost in Translation’: Financial Plots and the Modernist Reader in The Custom of the Country
- Notes
- Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial Note
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1 The Custom of the Country: Edith Wharton's Conversation with the Atlantic Monthly
- 2 When the Reading Had to Stop: Readers, Reading and the Circulation of Texts in The Custom of the Country
- 3 ‘Don't Cry – it ain't that Kind of a Story’: Wharton's Business of Fiction, 1908–12
- 4 Worst Parents Ever: Cultures of Childhood in The Custom of the Country
- 5 Crude Ascending the Staircase: Undine Spragg and the Armory Show
- 6 ‘It's Better to Watch’: Compulsive Voyeurism in The Custom of the Country and The House of Mirth
- 7 A ‘Mist of Opopanax’: Mapping the Scentscape of The Custom of the Country
- 8 Landscape with the Fall of Undine
- 9 Girls from the Provinces: Wharton's Undine Spragg and Cather's Thea Kronborg
- 10 Men at Work in The Custom of the Country
- 11 ‘Lost in Translation’: Financial Plots and the Modernist Reader in The Custom of the Country
- Notes
- Index
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- Edith Wharton's The Custom of the CountryA Reassessment, pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014